Category: Church News

President Donald Trump’s administration says Nov. 3, 2025, that it will partially fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits after several states sued to force a court order. / Credit: Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 3, 2025 / 17:08 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump’s administration will partially fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits…

An African nun prays the rosary. On Jan. 7, 2025, two religious sisters were kidnapped in the Archdiocese of Onitsha in Nigeria. / Credit: Diego Cervo/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 31, 2025 / 17:30 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump said he is designating Nigeria a “country of particular concern.” In a social media post Oct….

Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez of Uruapan, a city in the Mexican state of Michoacán, was murdered Nov. 1, 2025. / Credit: Uruapan Municipal Government ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 3, 2025 / 14:49 pm (CNA). After Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan, a city in the Mexican state of Michoacán, was assassinated Nov. 1, the…

The outside of the reconstructed Basilica of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy, is lit up with lights in celebration of its reopening on Oct. 30, 2025. / Credit: Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia Rome Newsroom, Nov 3, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). The Basilica of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy, reopened for worship this weekend after a…

Pope Leo XIV leads the Church’s commemoration for his papal predecessor and 142 other bishops who died in the past year on Nov. 3, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 3, 2025 / 11:04 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday presided over a Mass in…

null / Credit: ShutterstockProfessional, Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 3, 2025 / 11:37 am (CNA). The Catholic Diocese of Alexandria, Louisiana, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday, Oct. 31, making it the 41st U.S. diocese to seek court-supervised reorganization in the wake of clergy sexual abuse claims. Bishop Robert Marshall Jr., who has led…

St. Martin de Porres. / Credit: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Nov 3, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Nov. 3, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Martin de Porres, a Peruvian Dominican brother who lived a life of humble service and charity and became the first Black saint…

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass commemorating the faithful departed at Rome’s Verano Cemetery on Nov. 2, 2025. / Daniel Ibáñez Rome, Italy, Nov 2, 2025 / 12:40 pm (CNA). Celebrating Mass for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed at Rome’s Verano Cemetery, Pope Leo XIV invited Catholics to contemplate death “not so much as…

Pope Leo XIV leads the faithful in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in reciting the Angelus on Nov. 2, 2025. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 2, 2025 / 10:50 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV issued urgent appeals for peace and humanitarian access in Sudan and Tanzania on Sunday, decrying escalating violence that has…

The Sister Servants of Mary hold a procession with the statue of Our Lady of the Assumption at Mary Health of the Sick Convalescent Hospital in Newbury Park, California. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Servants of Mary, Ministers to the Sick CNA Staff, Nov 2, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). When a 93-year-old Catholic…